Frank Lewis Emanuel was a painter, printmaker, draughtsman and writer, born in London. After attending the Slade School of Fine Art 
From the late 1880s he began to show at the Royal Academy and Paris Salon, also exhibiting at the New English Art Club, Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters and many other galleries. 
Emanuel had a varied career travelling widely in Europe, Africa and Ceylon; being examiner for the Royal Drawing Society; publishing art criticism and topographical drawings in the Manchester Guardian and Architectural Review; and teaching etching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1918-30.   
The Tate Gallery holds his picture Kensington Interior.  He lived in London.